The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-06-26
SERIOUS FRAUDS.
suiodIing in Wyoming Desert
'"' Land Entries
.ow THE ENTRIES WERE MADE
rive Thousand Acres GOD
1hir 'od-The Civil Service System
General News
,.nd Frauds III wyoming

extensive Land Z RAJ a.,...tanor
~ r,sursGroN, June 25.-Commisslehei
va. today took the necessary pre-
Spa 49, steps to cancel ffty-fVe des-
lili- IaJ entries in Wyoming Territory
Ell ga in area about $4,000 acres
~, sss- COMMISSIONER in his letter to the
~ .- ~ and receiver at Cheyenne states
f re-. tbs final proof made Of these cases a2
thst .EsILtTantiaIly the same, and is 10 t1e
is :upS .5ot bv means of bitches already
eHec. NO Tod an ample supply OF water
coasILL md to properly irrigate the lanGs;
Is 3. mi aI.imsnts own the right to the
ina. Tins Tins secured, and have never
vac nth their interest IN the lana
Psl.o .uaoIaimed. and have never agreed
mus I. g. special agent OF the general
y W o Fl mon investigation! reports
t tEa following: Upon q maJorlGy VI snU
an. ontries no bitches that Woulu CaI iIS
TOR have ever been constructed "uIie
w. few bitches that have Deen con
' ~ have never been utilized; "A
sHI naT of one large and several little
S Sa, we're made, and ploW furroW
o M in many places to show the line OF
mauo bnf No actual bona tide dltchlnS
suL'e! o1e ~ done by the claim
S "as nor by any one for Them:
eng ~ .ho ditching that was done was OF
80 10 most mo shadoWy nature, and was not
tLLII.tontiaIIv useful nor intended to be
80 The land has not been reclaimed
nor irrigated to the slightest degree IN
sDv one of the ffty-fiye cases enumer-
aied, and was at the date OF the lnVes
1igstion in the condition it was IN at
t5s time the entry was made" The
Goshen Han Ditching Company and
tho Union Cattle Company are
tindred corporations, doing business IN
tb9 Territory OF Wyoming, and officers
If the latter are also officers OF the for
Tner The "Ditching CO" had IN hand |
Ior itself and the Cattle Company"
the construction of system Of bitches
with which to irrigate these entries, put
at only one point along the whole line |
of IS or 40 miles has ditch ever been
constructed so to be able to carry water, |
and even here il has been utilized. At |
many points where cuts OF from four TO |
eight feet were required by the survey, |
q cut Of only one foot is made and |
where fills are required none are found.
The surface line of the ditch presents |
the same general appearance-that is
one foot cut, throughout its entire
length. Again, where the ground is
rocky, no attempt was made by single
plOW furrOW to mark the line of the
intended ditch. WheJe fumes were re-
quired to span the gullies and gulches,
no fumes we're to be found. 1t is evil
dent from the nature and character of
The work done that these skeleton
bitches were made solely for the pur-
pose OF proving up. What was done was
at the instance Of Thomas Sturgis, pres
ldent OF the Goshen Hall Ditching Co.,
and officers Of the Union Cattle Co. At |
the dates of final proof, it was
known by Sturgis that the bitches, !
so-caued, we're not capable of carrying
water on to the land. While each
entry stands alone on the books,
mere IS q connection between them
AZ, aud 1t lies in the fact that each !
was made IN the interests of one of the
Two companies named, or some officers
or members thereof. Of fifty-five
ehtrymen seven live in Wyoming,
seven seven IN New jersey, thirty in New
/ OK. and eleven IN Massachusetts,.
Inspector N Powers went to New York
NeW Jersey and Massachusetts, and
! intssIVieEed anumber of entrymen. The
Information he gained shows that Stu
Tls procured the making of entries.
80; 80 tOIeign entrymen made the en-
.Lles merely to oblige a friend, and
y .. considered they actually had any
Interest | IN the lands, nor have thew ever
laa any individual water rights. They
s,sued papers they did not examine or
- apG go; .ne purpose of, simply because by
no. ~ .uoLAB tHey could serve a friend, and
avs enc OF them ever anticipated anv
enumeration for SO doing.